Ideas

“I don’t understand where ideas come from. I can be sitting thinking about something, when out of nowhere a new idea with no relation to anything I can think of pops into my head. Where does it come from? What causes it?”

“Past experiences, maybe. Or random neurons firing in your brain.”

“But can random neurons firing trigger a coherent idea? With dreams, they often end up completely insane and illogical because of the randomness of what’s causing them.”

“I imagine your conscious mind takes over from the spark of an idea and shapes it into something which makes sense, based on existing knowledge.”

“That makes sense, but maybe this should’ve been written differently and posted on Unsubstantiated Theories instead.”